The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-22
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


oe due to poison, and not to an
organism. He claims that. by making
ANIMALS absorb repeated doses of sui
phlde of carbon, or oXy-sulphde of
carbon dissolved in poppy-oil, he can
induce the alterations in the blood and
organs which are present in patients
dead of malarial fever.
"A full description of the great
Southern comet of this year has been
published by DR.. j. Nj. Thorne, of the
S0uthAmerican observatory of Cordova.
He says it was in effect all tail, being
without nucleus or condensation of any
sort The tail was more than forty
degrees long, narrow, clearly-defned,
and very graceful in appearance
N. Y. Ledger.
An industrial canvass of $50 Maine
cities and towns by the Lewistown
Gazette shows that thus far this year
there have been erected 1000 houses,
70 school houses, and adozen churches.
putting $5,000000 into new buildings
OF all kinds There are $4,000 persons
engaged in producing over $50, 100000
worth of goods, and already 145 new
enterprises have been started.
The suggestion that the Chinese
make use of several plants as ginger
which are not known Us such by
European botanists, has led to an in
vestigation by Mr.. Charles Ford, of
Hong Kong, who finds only one sort,
which is the commonly cultivated
species botanically know as Zingjber
oGcinale. This plant, however, varies
greatly in its quality with the soil upon
which it is grown.-M Y. Ledger.
"A case of lock-jaw caused by a
wound has been successfully treated by
Dr. Mayer, in Germany, who admins
tered tifteen-grain doses of choral
hydrate and bromide of potassium al
ternately every hour for fourteen days.
Then he discontinued the choral
hydrate. but gave the bromide month
longer, at the end of which the cure
was complete, although the patient
was left very weak.-M Y. Ledger
Mr.. Ernest Hart, of the Smoke
Abatement Institute, fears that London
will always suffer from fogs. because it
is placed in river valley, on clay soil,
and is bordered on the Essex side by
low-lying lands very imperfectly
drained, and on the north side by the
Harrow Weald. The fogs generated,
the results of damp exhalations, are
greatly aggravated by the. parks. most
of which require draining. But if the
smoke is got rid of the fogs will be
much less dense. Boston Budget.
limo for Mariners. The plan of
signaling accurate time from sea-coasts
was first adopted by Great Britain
about thirty years ago. That country
now has on its coasts fourteen time
balls and five other time-signals, and
its colonies and dependencies have
twenty-six time-balls; Germany has
seven time balls; France, four time balls
and two other time-signals; Sweden and
Norway, Austria Hungary, Holland
with Belgium, and the United States
have five time-balls each; Denmark has
two; Spain and Portugal, one each;
Italy, none-ArbGnSdw Traveller.
1t is gratifying sight to see the
iron and steel making capacity of the
entire country fully employed. 1t is
pleasing also to note the conservative
tendency among both producers and
consumers. Receipts of foreign ma
terial are uncomfortably large for Amer
lean makers, and this condition of
things will be remedied just as rapidly
as circumstances will permit. An enor-
nous demand is pressing on producing
capacity for rails, rail fastenings, loco
motives, cars and equipments of every
character. There is also a heavy de-
mand for electrical appliances among
railway managers, and the erection of
electrical plants in the West is being
stimulated. -RGiIUGy ReUieIO.